Word: undercutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators, including Democrat Birch Bayh of Indiana and Republicans Jacob Javits of New York and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. But South Dakota Democrat George McGovern, another signer, warned that it would be foolish for Israel to conclude that the message supported Israeli occupation of Arab territories. Still, the letter undercut Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's assertions to the Israelis that congressional support for them was waning...
...investigative journalism has long depended on the court-recognized right of a reporter to protect his sources in most situations by withholding their names from public disclosure. Otherwise, ordinary citizens, fearful of retaliation by powerful people, might hesitate to speak out about wrongdoing. Two cases now seriously threaten to undercut that First Amendment right. In Fresno, Calif., a judge sentenced two editors and two reporters to serve indefinite terms in jail because they refused to reveal how their newspaper, the Fresno Bee, obtained and later printed sealed grand jury testimony. The testimony centered on a bribery and conspiracy indictment...
...from the action in order to make him consider its implications. The black and white sequences, both in form and content, pose the question of the occupation's meaning for Frenchmen today. The dull crowds of people, the dark buildings, the depressing film studio--mundane scenes from the present--undercut the exquisite nostalgia of the color sequences and reveal the director's consciousness of the limitations of his self-exploration...
...most recent federal gun-control law, passed in 1968, has been an abysmal failure. The proposal was fought so successfully by the National Rifle Association that the eventual law did little more than strengthen bookkeeping requirements for dealers and ban the importing of cheap pistols. Even that ban was undercut by permitting Americans to import the parts for easily assembled "Saturday-night specials," short-barreled, cheaply made weapons that sell for $25 or so and usually fire small-caliber bullets...
...weeks ago, President Ford pointedly contradicted Simon on a significant issue. Simon had declared that Kissinger's proposal to put a floor under oil prices, so that developers of alternate energy sources could be sure that their prices would not be undercut, was not Administration policy. Ford then had Press Secretary Ron Nessen declare that it was indeed his policy. Since then, Simon's confidence, in his influence if not his beliefs, has seemed shaken. Once fiercely independent, he now takes care to go over proposed congressional testimony with White House aides. Many in the Administration doubt that...